Dear Josie: Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education.In Dear Josie: Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education, Joseph, Liza and Caitlin Featherstone, all of them educators and journalists, have compiled some of Joseph Featherstone's best essays over the years, including his famous letter to the new teacher, Josie. Featherstone's writing is woven A woven is a cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the Bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic. Woven cloth usually frays at the edges, unless measures are taken to counter this, such as the use of pinking shears or hemming. with qualitative details of the education system in its best moments and its worst. These authors have pulled together a combination of essays that reflect the thought-provoking questions that teachers, administrators and the school system must wrestle with as children are educated for their future in America. One section of Dear Josie, which deals with school and society, considers the impact of desegregation desegregation: see integration. on children and learning. Though teachers often overlook the political aspect of teaching, through Featherstone's essays the authors suggest this is a serious oversight
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The Featherstone team (father and daughters) provides plenty of examples that could serve as the basis of in-depth discussions. The essays challenge teachers and administrators alike to develop foundational philosophies that support the need to leave no child behind and the power of education. (Dear Josie: Witnessing the Hopes and Failures of Democratic Education by Joseph Featherstone, Liza Featherstone Liza Featherstone (born April 21, 1969) is an American journalist who writes frequently on labor and student activism for The Nation. Featherstone was born and grew up in the vicinity of Boston. She studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. and Caitlin Featherstone, Teachers College Press, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , N.Y., 2003, 185 pp. with index, $19.95 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. ) Sherion Hudgins Jackson Assistant Professor of Educational Administration, Texas A&M University-Commerce |
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